pathologic 2 made me obsessed with soviet era russia, what kind of books can i read for the i hope my next door neighborg starves soon so i can rob him kind of feel? the more miserable the better

i only played the first game but i require related russian lit too

Read The Gulag Archipelago
Kolyma Tales
The Gray House
Any book on the Civil War

Watch Leviathan
Letters from a Dead Man
Hard to be a God
Stalker
Come and Sneed

Play Disco Elysium

This post makes me want to download Pathologic again. It is so fucking good.
There is also a list of recommendations by the devs themselves

>>24553723 (OP)
>pathologic 2 made me obsessed with soviet era russia, what kind of books can i read for the i hope my next door neighborg starves soon so i can rob him kind of feel? the more miserable the better
Victor Serge, Defeated City Trilogy
Kollontai, Love of the Worker Bees / Red Love
Trotsky, Complete
Stalin, On Linguistics
Stalin, Short Course History of the RSFSR(b) / CPSU(b)
Andrle Workers in Soviet Russia
Fitzpatrick, S. Complete works
Idi I smotri
Dr Zhivago (NOT THE FILM THE FILM IS TOO NICE)
Scissor Crisis Debate

Das Leben der Anderen is a good commie depression film

>>24554408
Strauss https://www.marxists.org/archive/strauss/index.htm
Pirani https://files.libcom.org/files/The%20Russian%20revolution%20in%20retreat.pdf

>>24554429
>>24554408
Good recommendations. A little unrelated, but can you recc something during Stalin's policy and how he ran the government/organization and industrialized? I tried to read his biography but its not really focused on what I want

here is an excerpt from the ice pick lodge forums about various inspirations to each dev:

>We are often asked as to what books and movies we like—and so we’ve decided to compile a list of our favourites so that we don’t have to wrinkle our foreheads trying not to forget anything good each time the question arises. The list could have been longer, of course; it doesn’t include nearly enough. Still, it’s a good place to start if you want to learn more about our non-gaming tastes.
Books

>Nikolay Dybowski, Creative Lead
Paul Gallico, Jennie
Thornton Wilder: everything
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill; The Man Who Was Thursday

>Ayrat Zakirov, CTO
Mikhail Sholokhov, And Quiet Flows the Don
Leo Lotstoy, War and Peace
Andrei Platonov, The Foundation Pit
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic
Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

>Peter Potapov, Chief of 3D
Read everything! Ray Bradbury, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Stephen King, Isaak Asimov, Clifford Simak, Terry Pratchett, Robert Sheckley, Harry Harrison, Neil Gaiman. Tired of sci-fi? Try Tolstoy (all of them), Ivan Bunin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Isaak Babel. Want something non-Russian? How about Iain Banks, J. D. Salinger, John Fowles. There's a lot of good literature!

>Ivan Slovtsov, Game Designer
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Fedor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

>Alexandra "Alphyna" Golubeva, Chief of Translation/Writer
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
Fedor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, The Doomed City

>Anna Orlova, Concept Artist
Stephen King, The Dark Tower; The Stand
Dan Simmons, Hyperion Cantos
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
Victor Pelevin, Generation P; Omon Ra

>Igor Zinovyev, Tools Programmer
Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Kukotsky's Case
Stanisław Lem, Solaris; Cyberiada
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Prisoners of Power; The Kid from Hell

>Dmitry Zhebynev, Engine Programmer
Simon R. Green, Deathstalker
Vassily Golvachev, The Black Man
Roman Zlotnikov, Swrods above the Stars

>Sophia Vasilenko, Maintenance person
Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
Clifford D. Simak, Target Generation
Michel de Montaigne, Essais
Sergey Lukyanenko, Spectrum; Almost Spring
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, One Billion Years before the End of the World; Hard to be a God
Boris Strugatsky, Search for Destiny or the Twenty Seventh Theorem of Ethics
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

>>24554529
>3D guy is the one most enthusiastic about reading
>Game designer and concept artist have the most basic tastes
>random maintenance woman is more /lit/ than any of the creatives
>half the list is just Strugatsky
It's like poetry, it rhymes. In all seriousness, the list from Disco Elysium's devs was more interesting.

>>24553723 (OP)
Read "The Complete and Final Disgrace" - a memoir by Alexei Smirnov (von Rauch) (1937-2009), an avant-garde artist, a reactionary anarchist holy fool of aristocratic origin, who possesses the art of smoothly moving from discussions of the connection between Russian icon painting and Malevich's "Square" to recollections of how he rolled in vomit after yet another libation. Or from an apology for the collaboration of Russian anti-Bolsheviks with Great Germany (a relative - Cossack General F.F. Abramov was among the leaders of the ROVS and signatories of the Prague Manifesto of 1944) - to personal experience of interaction with homeless people during restoration work at a Moscow cemetery. I would recommend starting with the essay "Is Non-Noble Literature Possible in Russia?" (spoiler: no). Smirnov's misanthropy is so absolute that it is even charming, and you quickly get drawn into his writings. On the other hand, before you start reading, you have to understand that you are dealing with an enfant terrible.

In addition:
"He was expecting a large procession of the cross of Christ's warrior-avengers. In front, with the banners of the Savior and St. George the Victorious, the monks walked, behind them, in dense rows, in Russian faded, crooked caps, the white army moved. Collective farms were dissolved, lands were returned to monasteries and churches, gentlemen were again installed in their ancestral nests, and a thick ringing of bells sounded over the entire Russian land. Communists and their accomplices were subjected to merciless judgment and reprisals. The only thing that, in his opinion, the Germans did right was to catch and exterminate Jews and communists, and everything else was mistakes and nothing but mistakes."
From his novel "Dionysius's Board".

Unfortunately there is no translation from Russian.

>>24554613
>Disco Elysium's devs was more interesting.
Post it

>>24554433
Djilas M Conversations with stalin